Improvement in the manufacture of scythe-stones



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcEc A Y ALVIN G. SQUIRE, CF PELHAM,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFCTURE OF SCYTHEHSTONES.

i Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,790, dated September4, 1866.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVIN G. SQUIRE, of Pelham, in the county ofHampshire, in the Commonwealth of Massachusettsl.- have invented a newand Improved Instrument for Sharpening Scythes for Cutting Grass, Grain,and Bushes, and other edge-tools and implements; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, and the letters ot' referencemarked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in making a groove about one-eighthof an inch in width and depth lengthwise around a common Scythe-stone orscythe-ritle, which is a thin piece of wood about three-eighths ot' aninch in thickness and about one and a half inch in width and abouttwelve inches in length, with a handle at one end, and covered with glueor shellac, and coated with emery, and

inserting. in said groove, so as to encircle the whole stone or wood, acast-steel band, which is closely fitted to and iills the groove, andprojects outward and about one-sixteenth of an inch above the face ofthe stone or wood.

After the tool or instrument to be sharpened is rubbed with the stone orwood so coated with glue or shellac and emery, the edge is burnishedwith the steel band, so as to give it a smoother and more perfect edge.

What I claim as my invention is- The cast-steel band and the mode 0I'attaching it to the stone or wood prepared as above stated, and to beused, in connection with such stone or wood, for the purpose ofsharpening scythes, edge-tools, and other implements requiring a sharpedge.

' ALVIN G. SQUIRE. Witnesses:

J. J. VINCENT, WILLIAM NEWELL.

